Adding 31 tables would increase total to 183, bring 107 full-time jobs to South Side.

The busiest table games room of all Pennsylvania casinos is looking to grow, which would bring more than 100 new jobs to Bethlehem.

Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem has applied to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to add 31 new tables, an addition that would bring its tables room up to 183 — the most in Pennsylvania, and with good reason.

Sands generates the highest amount of table games revenue among the state's 11 casinos. It posted a tables take of $12.8 million for October, easily outpacing Parx's second-place $8.3 million, according to a report released Friday by the gaming board.

"The Sands has had the highest gross table games revenues in the commonwealth for the past 10 months," Sands attorney Holly L. Eicher wrote in the casino's nine-page application. "Based on the exceptional demand for table games at the Sands, the Sands hereby requests this board to approve the instant gaming floor reconfiguration."

If approved, the expansion will bring another 107 full-time jobs to a casino complex that already employs more than 2,000, according to the application. While most of the new workers would be dealers, Sands would also hire more table games managers, cage workers, security officers and marketing staff, adding another $2.3 million in payroll and benefits.

"This will make Sands the largest casino for table games in the state, putting them past Parx," said gaming board spokesman Richard McGarvey. "Of course, when it comes to revenues, they've been past Parx for a while."

When table games opened in Pennsylvania in July 2010, Parx led the state with more than $90 million in gross table revenues the first year, easily outpacing the Sands' $73 million. Parx's top spot surprised few because Sands' local market has a population of 1 million people while Parx, in Bensalem Township, Bucks Township, has a local market of nearly 3 million.

Then through 2011, Sands and Parx traded punches, with each leading the state a few months. But Sands is now on a 10-month winning streak, largely on the strength of its bus traffic from New York and New Jersey, and it lengthens its lead almost every month. While Sands' October table revenue is a 19 percent increase over the same month last year, Parx's revenue is down 17 percent during the same period.

According to its application, Sands wants to add 14 mini-baccarat tables, six poker tables, two roulette tables, two let-it-ride tables, two Pai Gow tables, two three-card poker tables, one casino war table, one Texas hold 'em table and one craps table.

To make room for the tables, Sands will move 837 slot machines, while maintaining the same 3,024 slot machines now in use.

The gaming board is scheduled to review the application Tuesday during its regular meeting in Harrisburg.

State laws allow casinos to have up to 250 table games, with no more than 30 percent of them used for poker. Sands' application does not carry the casino outside either of those requirements, and its approval is expected to be a formality.